Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the most dedicated Israeli feels an occasional urge for a brief respite from the anxiety. You cannot help but sense that the Israelis would be happier if everybody could get up in the morning and just for one day not have to worry about being tough or brave or proud. But this is not possible. For the restrictions that emerge from the people's strong nationalistic impulses are not those placed by the government on the people, or by some individuals on others, but rather by individuals on themselves. And no individual will allow himself a day without...
...BRIEF AGAINST DEATH by Edgar Smith, with an introduction by William F. Buckley Jr. 364 pages. Knopf...
...Brief Against Death is a detailed did-I-do-it? Smith's conviction was based on a tight chain of circumstantial evidence. By his own admission, he was with the murdered girl shortly before her death. He also concedes that he slapped her, but from that point on his story differs from that of the prosecution. Smith claims that he left the girl alive. According to the prosecution, he tried to rape her, and then he beat her to death...
...Jersey state prison in Trenton, Smith, a high school dropout, has ambitiously educated himself. An enrollee in many college correspondence courses, he also subscribes to publications as diverse as National Review and the Peking Review. He is obviously intelligent, and his prose, though sometimes wooden, is sturdy. What his brief suffers from most is-as he himself says-the fact that "I am by nature a transcendentally unemotional, matter-of-fact individual, the antithesis of what a man testifying in his own behalf, with his life at stake, should...
Stendahl gave only brief details of what the 1969 Colloquium would entail. The previous two have included both closed and open sessions, where opposing views were candidly discussed...